BP’s spokesman on the Gulf of Mexico crisis is Andrew Gowers, 53, formerly editor of the Financial Times, who departed ‘the pink’un’ in 2005 over ‘strategic differences’ with the management.

After Gowers joined Lehman Brothers as head of communications the U.S. merchant bank duly collapsed in 2008.

He once embarrassed himself at a Paris dinner after leaving to take a call on his mobile, forgetting he was wearing a microphone.

Fellow diners heard him call the event ‘a complete waste of time… the same old c**p… the usual old b******s.’

Bearded Andrew seems to be a walking disaster zone.

New role: Lindsay Lohan is starring in a Deep Throat remake

The hugely successful 1972 porn flick Deep Throat is to be the subject of a new movie starring the much rehabilitated Hollywood actress Lindsay Lohan, 23.

The original is thought to have generated as much as £350million at the box office on a meagre £13,000 budget and starred the late Linda Lovelace, who claimed her abusive husband, Chuck Traynor, forced her to film some of the graphic scenes by pointing an M-16 assault rife at her head.

Ms Lohan is alleged to be the star of her own homemade sex videos. So, no need to put a gun to her head, perhaps.

Cabinet Ministers Ed Balls, Peter Hain and Tessa Jowell commend tactical voting but have they broken Labour Party rules, which state that any member who supports any candidate ‘who stands against an official Labour candidate’ shall ‘automatically be ineligible to be or remain a party member’?

Surely urging support for a candidate who stands against the official Labour candidate is the same.